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[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

Betcha working conditions on farms would be a lot better if everyone was required to do a rotation once every couple of years.

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 83 points 1 year ago

i did about 4-5 years full time as a young idealist. i was underpaid, ripped off, exploited, and did lots of dangerous shit. got real lucky to not be injured. it still head and shoulders above what happens to the trafficked and adjacent migrant workers brought in by brokers and contract housed. nobody assaulted me, nobody could take away my documents or steal personal belongings from me with impunity with a phone call to La Migra. labor aristocracy compared to the prison work gangs and furlough programs of angola.

but just from the long hours in the heat for absolutely dogshit pay, all that liberal indoctrination against political, mob violence i grew up immersed in, oozed from my pores and evaporated away in the oppressive south georgia sunshine.

i realized in my bones the people running this system deserve everything waiting for them.

[-] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago
[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We should make it so you gotta have a 4 years work experience before going to college or getting any "grown-up" job, with at least one year in retail, one in food service, one in labor, and one in hospitality.

[-] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

Mandatory Proletarian Service

[-] immuredanchorite@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

this was already a thing. they called it the up to the mountain, down to the countryside movement

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

think 3 months in each leaves enough of impression tbh (with harvesting even 1 week is enough, if the weather is against you and you do some of the back breaking stuff tbh)

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago

"see the problem with slavery is that i didn't get to own any slaves! very problematic."

agony-limitless

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Liberals' problem with the Holocaust isn't that it was the fucking Holocaust. Their problem is concentration camp SS guards didn't get sensitivity training seminars.

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

I've maintained the establishment dems playbook has moved on from performative identity politics to identity schadenfreude, which now defines the anti-immigration shift of the dems

The point is to compartmentalize and silo whole demographics off from one another using crude divide and conquer rhetoric for the sake of two goals; first to appeal to white American suburbanites and their perennial dislike for anyone with a skintone darker than uncooked pizza dough (the Schumer strategy but explicitly racialized) and second to isolate the organizationally minded members of any given demographic by anchoring them to the belief that only their own demographics can be viable targets of organizing; blasting indirect divisive rhetoric like "Let THEM pick cotton, instead" is only the most visible of the tactics being used. It's a total non-starter in terms of fostering solidarity and the overall point is to create resentment to forestall organizing by left orgs

This rhetorical strategy is born right out of the anti-Palestine hysteria of the DNC, while Sanders/AOC sheepdog desperate radicals back into the Democratic Party, this trap is what's waiting for them

[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

"we have Liberia at home"

Liberia at home:

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Completely unsurprising. This is who they’ve been boosting over AOC

[-] sodium_nitride@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

“Jasmine Crockett said she wants illegal immigrants to pick her cotton and NO ONE from the left is gonna check her?” women’s sports activist Riley Gaines asked. “Wild times we're living in.”

Color me shocked! The "women's sports activist" is actually an anti-trans hack. I swear these journalist scumbag trash think they can slip by anything from under our noses.

“I’m really trying to grasp her logic,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, added. “And yet .” President Donald Trump acknowledged Rep. Crockett during remarks at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner Tuesday. “The Democrats have taken a lot of beatings, they’ve lost their confidence,” he said. “They’ve gone crazy. How about this new one they have, their new star Crockett? Are they serious about that?” “If that’s their new star they’re in serious trouble,” he added.

Behold! The consequences of having 0 ideological discipline for even the mildest milquetoast progressivism (forget DiaMat)! SocDems getting repeated outflanked by fascists from the left.

Rep. Crockett last month also faced backlash for referring to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who uses a wheelchair, as “Governor Hot Wheels.”

Appropriate last name for this person. She truly is fried. Someone should photoshop her head onto the standing croquette in this pciture. Hell, I'll do it (tomorrow maybe).

[-] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

President Donald Trump acknowledged Rep. Crockett during remarks at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner Tuesday. “The Democrats have taken a lot of beatings, they’ve lost their confidence,” he said. “They’ve gone crazy. How about this new one they have, their new star Crockett? Are they serious about that?” “If that’s their new star they’re in serious trouble,” he added.

heartbreaking

[-] MayoPete@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Those look so tasty

[-] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

So this is why I was feeling hungry ever since I started reading....

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago
[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can you fuckers go five minutes without throwing your voters under the bus???!

[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

"The resistance", folks.

[-] CeliacMcCarthy@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago
[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I 100% thought this was a conservative after glancing thru the article, and only noticed

“The Democrats have taken a lot of beatings, they’ve lost their confidence,” he said. “They’ve gone crazy. How about this new one they have, their new star Crockett? Are they serious about that?”

I hate this country so goddamn much

THESE are the people these fucking libs come in here to chastise us for not electing? Just vote conservative already you undeservedly smug losers.

[-] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

putting the closest auto body shop on speed dial cause all my libs keep getting SCRATCHED

[-] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

something something read Settlers etc

[-] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 1 year ago

least fascist yankkkee

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the-democrat: “Mom, can we stop at McFascism for some exploitation?”

the-republican: “We have exploitation at home.”

[-] dkr567@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The amerikkkan rot mindset just hits everyone, regardless of race.

[-] whatdoiputhere12@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

damn bruh this is your opposition against trump-drenched

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

What’s worse is when the die hards tell you that you hate immigrants by not voting for them.

[-] corvidenjoyer@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

~~damn bruh this is your opposition against~~ trump-drenched

“The Democrats have taken a lot of beatings, they’ve lost their confidence,” he said. “They’ve gone crazy. How about this new one they have, their new star Crockett? Are they serious about that?” “If that’s their new star they’re in serious trouble." speech-r trump-drenched

[-] Angel@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago
[-] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Extremely predictable

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago
[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

vile and dehumanizing rhetoric from a performer

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Dems, the Republicans keep saying slave owners and the founders of the KKK were democrats; please stop trying to prove their point, it's making the whole country look stupid.

[-] Pentacat@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

The whole country is stupid, though.

[-] Bloobish@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Holy fuck the mask didn't just come off it got gleefully ripped off and tossed aside

[-] kjaeselrek@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Lmao holy shit

[-] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago
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